Tatsiana Trafimchyk

Date of birth: 14 August 1986

Date of detention: 15 December 2022

Charges indicted:

Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
Art. 366 of the Criminal Code — Violence or threat against an official performing official duties or another person performing a public duty
Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
Art. 367 of the Criminal Code — Slander against the President of the Republic of Belarus

Sentence: unknown

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Aliaksandr Kozel

Prison: Penal colony No. 4

On the list of “terrorists” (money transfers are prohibited)

Tatsiana Trafimchyk was sentenced to imprisonment under Article 130 (Incitement to hatred), Part 2 of Article 366 (Violence or threat against an official performing official duties or another person performing a public duty), Part 2 of Article 367 (Slander against Lukashenka), Article 368 (Insulting Lukashenka) of the Criminal Code.

The verdict was pronounced by Judge Aliaksandr Kozel on February 3, 2023. 

Mail address: Penal colony No. 4. 246035, Homieĺ, vulica Antoshkina 3

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